Posts Tagged ‘bangkok’

Thai Police in Bangkok Seize Bomb-Making Material

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Officials were led to a commercial building outside Bangkok by a Lebanese man whom authorities accuse of being part of a group planning violence.

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Bangkok flood evacuation widens

Monday, November 7th, 2011

More districts of the Thai capital Bangkok are told to evacuate, as floodwater continues to cause havoc in many areas of the city.

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Thailand PM upbeat over flooding

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra expresses optimism that central Bangkok will escape flooding, as defences hold despite high tides.

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Key Thai business park evacuated

Monday, October 17th, 2011

One of Thailand’s largest industrial estates is evacuated due to flooding, as officials say most of Bangkok appears to have escaped the deluge.

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VIDEO: Bangkok braced for severe floods

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

People in the Thai capital, Bangkok, are bracing themselves for severe floods – which have already affected around a third of the country.

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VIDEO: Bangkok braced for severe floods

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

People in the Thai capital, Bangkok, are bracing themselves for severe floods – which have already affected around a third of the country.

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VIDEO: Bangkok braced for severe floods

In pictures: Thai floods near Bangkok

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Worst floods in decades near the capital Bangkok

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In pictures: Thai floods near Bangkok

Bangkok ‘safe’ as floods approach

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Thai leader says Bangkok’s city-centre flood defences will hold, as efforts continue to protect the city from the country’s worst floods in decades.

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Bangkok ‘safe’ as floods approach

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Thai leader says Bangkok’s city-centre flood defences will hold, as efforts continue to protect the city from the country’s worst floods in decades.

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Thais race to stop Bangkok floods

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Workers in Thailand race to finish sandbag walls on the outskirts of Bangkok, to try to stop the country’s worst floods in years inundating parts of the capital.

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Qantas flight in engine shutdown

Friday, May 20th, 2011

A Qantas plane shuts down an engine and returns to Bangkok, the latest incident related to a Rolls-Royce engine.

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Liam Neeson Cut from The Hangover Part II

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

This could be a case of schadenfreude. After rumors of a Bill Clinton cameo in the highly anticipated film sequel The Hangover Part II proved false, now comes word that Liam Neeson’s cameo as a Bangkok tattoo artist in the film has been cut, according…

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Thailand ‘yellow-shirts’ protest

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Crowds of Thai nationalists, known as “yellow-shirts”, protest in Bangkok over the government’s handling of a border dispute with Cambodia.

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1,800 Human Fetuses Discovered at Temple

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Staff at a Bangkok Buddhist temple discovered 348 human fetuses stored in plastic bags in the morgue after neighbors complained of a foul smell. Police went on to find 1,500 more fetuses. Lanjakorn Jantamanas, 33, admitted she’d been transporting…

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Thais recover thousands of fetuses

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Thai authorities have arrested a woman following the discovery of hundreds of fetuses at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, police said Friday.

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